Special Lecture: Dan McCarthy on the History of Conservatism and the Conservative Movement in America

Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Dan McCarthy gives a lecture on the various elements of the conservative movement to ISI’s staff at our campus in Wilmington, DE
• a historical account of the American revolution and its implications for American conservatism
• why conservatives need to see through “both eyes” of history and ideas

Texts Mentioned:

• Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
• The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet
• Crisis of the House Divided by Harry V. Jaffa
• “Is Liberalism Worth Saving?” symposium in Harper’s Magazine
• Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Superfluous Men by Robert Crunden
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
• Memoirs of A Superfluous Man by Alfred Jay Nock
• The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
• The Liberal Tradition in America by Louis Hartz
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash
• The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
• The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich Hayek
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers
• Containment or Liberation? by James Burnham
• The Emerging Republican Majority by Kevin Phillips
• The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony